Master class with Prof. Marek Szlezer (Penderecki Academy of Music Krakow)
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Marek Szlezer (born 1981) is one of the most sought-after Polish pianists. He began playing the piano at the age of five. His career began with the Grand Prix at the International Piano Competition in Rome at the age of 12. He studied at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, the Academy of Music in Krakow and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium with Stefan Wojtas, Ewa Bukojemska, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Dmitri Bashkirov and Marcella Crudeli. He has received scholarships from Polish and foreign foundations as well as from the City of Krakow and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. He has received artistic advice from, among others, A. Ciccolini, F. Ts'ong, K. Kenner, M. Pressler and H. Czerny-Stefańska. He has been a member of the Steinway Artist family since 2022 and has won numerous prestigious competitions in Poland and abroad. His accomplished performances of the music of Frédéric Chopin have earned him numerous prizes: 1st prize at the National Chopin Competition in Warsaw and the special prize of the Chopin National Edition. He had the honor of playing a concert on Chopin's original grand piano at the Jagiellonian University on the night Poland joined the European Union.
Marek Szlezer has performed in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Salle Cortot, the Seoul Arts Center, the NCPA in Mumbai and the Palacio de Bellas Artes. He has given public lectures and performed at prestigious universities such as Cambridge University, Columbia University, Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, UNAM, UNICAMP, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. He is currently head of the piano department at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow.
He has recorded several albums for the record companies Warner Classics, Dux, EMI, Amadeus and Moderato, which have received rave reviews in renowned music magazines (including Gramophone, Kulturspiegel, The Strad, Fanfare, American Record's Guide). For the CDs with music by Chopin, Szymanowski, Tansman and Penderecki, he has been awarded the French music critic's prize La Clef de ResMusica twice as well as the Gramophone Editor's Choice, 5 du Diapason, Selection ClicMag, Prix de la SACD, Global Music Awards Outstanding Achievement, Musicweb International Recording of the Month and various nominations for other record prizes (e.g. Polish Phonographic Awards FRYDERYK and International Classical Music Awards).
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